withholding judgment withhrespect to how the entire process surrounding top lawmakers re angry they the fbi invvstgation that led to the petraeus resignation. on congressiooal questions about adminstration tatements the deadly attack on the u-s consulate in benghhzi was a spontaneous demonstration and not a terrorist attack the president aggresively defended u-n ambassador susan rice. obama says: "if senator mccain and senator graham, and somebody, they should go aater me. 14:04:07 to besmirch er reputation go after me. 14:00:07 to somebody, they should others want to go after senator graaam, and senaaor mccain and obama says: "if enatoo mccain and senator grahhm, and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. 14:04:07 to besmirch her reputation is outtageous." the president also challenged repuulicans tt agree to extend expiring tax cuts for middle class ameriians.obama says: "but what i'm not going to do is to extend bush tax cuts for the wwalthiest 2 percent that we can't afforddand, according to economists, will have the ecooomy." congress has until the nd of the yyar to